Life and Words by Veena Das
Contributes to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. This book examines case studies including the extreme violence of the Partition of India in 1947 and the massacre of Sikhs in 1984 after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.-
Textures of the Ordinary
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Violence and Subjectivity
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Remaking a World
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Sociology and Anthropology of Economic Life I : The Moral Embedding of Economic Action OIP
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Living and Dying in the Contemporary World
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The Ground Between
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Mirrors of Violence
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Words and Worlds
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Affliction
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Anthropology in the Margins of the State
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and a founding member of the Institute of Socio-Economic Research in Development and Democracy. Among her books is Violence and Subjectivity, which she coedited with Arthur Kleinman, Mamphela Ramphele, and Pamela Reynolds (UC Press). Stanley Cavell is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Harvard University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520247451 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520247450 |
| Title | Life and Words |
| Author | Veena Das |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2006-12-04 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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